The 2013 Pacers are the 18th team in NBA history to start 8-0. Who are the other 17?

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Re: The 2013 Pacers are the 18th team in NBA history to start 8-0. Who are the other 17?

The only way to get a good sense of whether or not a hot start equals playoffs success would be to look at which one team each year got off to the best start through 20 games, including those that might've started 15-1, 18-2, ect. Once that team has been identified, take a look at how their season ended. Only then could you determine what percentage of teams that start out the season well go on to win the NBA Finals.

It would take a lot of time and research to figure that one out. Maybe someone has already done that but we just haven't discovered it yet. At any rate, it would probably be inconclusive because several NBA Champions started out the season slow and then got hot after the All-Star break.

Re: The 2013 Pacers are the 18th team in NBA history to start 8-0. Who are the other 17?

The Pacers were the first team to beat that 02-03 Dallas team. It was on Thanksgiving. I really miss those Thanksgiving games.

yes, we were 12-2 and they were 14-1 after. What a matchup! Dirk was off (4-20) but Al Harrington, Jermaine, and Ron Artest went off. Tinsley had 15 assists and I though he was God, his passes were so nice- hitting people right into their shooting motion

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Re: The 2013 Pacers are the 18th team in NBA history to start 8-0. Who are the other 17?

yes, we were 12-2 and they were 14-1 after. What a matchup! Dirk was off (4-20) but Al Harrington, Jermaine, and Ron Artest went off. Tinsley had 15 assists and I though he was God, his passes were so nice- hitting people right into their shooting motion

Mark Cuban obviously deserves tremendous praise for transforming the Mavs from a mediocre franchise into a true powerhouse. He has a championship ring to show for it and has clearly been one of the best owners in the NBA for a long time. But I think that dumping Steve Nash so that they could sign Erik freaking Dampier to an obscene contract has to be one of the biggest NBA blunders over the last decade. Can you imagine if Dirk and Nash would have kept playing with each other?

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Re: The 2013 Pacers are the 18th team in NBA history to start 8-0. Who are the other 17?

That '02-'03 season is probably the most disappointing ending to a season I can remember in my Pacer fandom. Isiah coached the all star game that year as we had the best record in the east going into the break. A couple 6 game losing streaks and a 14-19 record after the all star game sent us limping into the Paul Pierce/Antioine Walker curb stomping we received in the playoffs. ....bleehhhhh I still can't erase that image of Paul Pierce talking trash to Al right before he went draino from three in Al's eye at the end of the 3rd quarter in game 4.